Champagne:
Vintage Champagne can age, in fact, it probably needs more time. Top “Tete” wines are released around 10 years of age but hit their potential around 20… and beyond. Champagne will continue to soar in price when you look at 10 year periods.
POL ROGER, CUVÉE SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL BRUT, FRANCE, 2013
98 Points - Wine Enthusiast: Although ready to drink, this very fine Champagne has plenty of aging to go. With its rich Pinot Noir and ripe fruits, it is generous while also fully textured. Complex and balanced, mature fruit and toast working together, this is a great wine.
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Burgundy White:
White burgundy prices have doubled in the past five years alone, I can’t imagine this continuing but it’s a safe bet they will not regress. Premier Cru’s hit potential around 10 years of age and Grand Crus around 15+.
BOUCHARD PÈRE & FILS, MONTRACHET GRAND CRU, FRANCE, 2018
98 Points - Jasper Morris: Racked from barrel to foudre. Clean pure light colour. Great tension on the nose, clearly very high class, no detail to speak of, and nor should there be. A massive bench of white fruit, suggests the nose. This completely masters the palate but brilliantly cleanly defined, nothing heavy. Sublime length and now the little nuances do start to appear.
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Burgundy Red:
I recommend buying top wines from great past vintages like 2009, 10, 12, 14 at this time. They may even be less expensive that current vintages and really allow you to enjoy them. The prices are high and this is not because of the producers but the demand is outstripping supply and this will not change anytime soon.
DOMAINE ROBERT CHEVILLON, NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES LES VAUCRAINS, COTE D'OR, BURGUNDY, FRANCE, 2012
96 Points - John Gilman: The 2012 Chevillon Vaucrains is again a brilliant wine in the making. The stunningly pure and deep bouquet offers up scents of red and black cherries, red plums, cocoa, venison, a very, very pure base of complex soil tones, woodsmoke and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and absolutely rock solid at the core, with plenty of firm, well-integrated tannins, and stunning focus and grip on the very, very long, utterly soil-driven finish. I love the blend of sappy fruit elements defining the nose and the very classically structured, pure and seamless palate impression- it is a very promising combination that will deliver a totally stunning wine with sufficient bottle age. Great juice.
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Bordeaux White:
Did you know that white Bordeaux is one of the rarest wines in the world? Only 3% of all the Bordeaux wines are white! They age like the reds and are always the smartest wine at the table when poured.
CHÂTEAU SMITH HAUT LAFITTE, BLANC, BORDEAUX, FRANCE, 2019
98 Points - Wine Enthusiast: In a line of great white wines from this estate, here is a superb vintage. It has all the richness of ripe fruit, but that has been channeled into structure, density as well as intense acidity and freshness. All the signs are this wine will age for a long, long time.
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Bordeaux Red:
One of the oldest continuous wine-producing properties in the Pauillac appellation; a 78-hectare vineyard; Château Latour produces three red wines: Grand Vin, Les Forts de Latour, and Pauillac…. This is the GRAND VIN - almost perfect every year, 2015 will be one of the best wines ever made…. Drink 2025-2100
CHÂTEAU LATOUR, GRAND VIN DE LATOUR PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSE, PAUILLAC, BORDEAUX, FRANCE, 2015
97-99 Points - Wine Enthusiast: 97–99. Barrel Sample. Seriously structured and yet also so smooth, this wine has great concentration and powerful tannins. There is wonderful juiciness here as well as dense, dusty tannins that are never hard, always velvet. It is going to be a great wine when it is released in maybe 10 years time. The wine comes only from vineyards that are biodynamic.
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Super Tuscan:
There are many Super Tuscans - there is only one Sassicaia… they invented the category. My bold call - its one of the cheapest great wines on the planet… it spanks the more expensive wines in the world!
TENUTA SAN GUIDO, SASSICAIA, TUSCANY, ITALY, 2020
97 Points - Decanter: Frosts damaged the the earlier-developing Cabernet Franc in late March, leading to reduced production but superb quality fruit. Spring was mild and summer was generally warm, but a rapid acceleration of maturation in late summer forced the team to begin picking in the first week of September to avoid any overripeness. A traditional 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Cabernet Franc blend, its blackcurranty, dusty, leafy and cedary character is brought into focus by an intense and balsamic palate. It's poised and light on its feet with super-fresh acidity and a fine-grained, almost imperceptible tannic structure. Ripe and tangy raspberry and blueberry fruits linger on the mid-palate, leading to a long, fresh finish with some cream and chocolate notes. This will reward cellaring into the 2050s, yet you'll get plenty of pleasure from it in its youth. 'We advise to keep it at least 10 months in the bottle before opening,' states third-generation Priscilla Incisa della Rocchetta.
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Barbaresco or Barolo:
We carry many of the greats but the goal is to have just one recommendation and that has to be GAJA. Now they make a number of wines - but don’t make the mistake - this is the wine your suppose to buy…. This is GAJA at its best… and when you do that, Gaja is the best.
GAJA, COSTA RUSSI BARBARESCO, PIEDMONT, ITALY, 2015
#54 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2019
99 Points - Wine Enthusiast: Aromas of rose, violet, red berry and baking spice mingle with a whiff of menthol on the nose of this compelling, gorgeous red. The vibrant, full-bodied palate is all about flair and finesse, delivering crushed raspberry, Marasca cherry, licorice and a hint of tobacco, all framed by taut, fine-grained tannins. Young and intense, it will be ideal after a few more years of aging, but will continue to develop for decades. Drink 2023–2040.
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